Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!jamesth
From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Formal Definition of Hypertalk
Message-ID: <58277@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:28:53 GMT
References: <11858@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <45569@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <45569@apple.Apple.COM> jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes:
|*HyperTalk 2.0: The Book* (ISBN 0-553-34737-3) has a railroad-car syntax
|description of HyperTalk 1.2 and 2.0. I haven't gone over it, but since
|one of the co-authors of the book is the designer of HyperTalk, I assume
|it's accurate & complete :-)

It is an incomplete BNF, in the sense that not all the syntactic
classes/nonterminals are expanded/referenced.  What I'm trying to
type is that the top and bottom level are good, but it breaks down
in the middle.  In yet another way, don't expect to transliterate
it directly into your favorite parser generator without some massaging.

Hope this helps, but perhaps it obscures,
James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth